By Suzanne Gordon for The American Prospect Under the guise of reducing veteran suicides, the Trump administration has released a plan that could radically reshape veteran care in the United States. The stated goal is to expand mental health services for newly transitioned veterans, the proposal, which administration officials approved on May 31, contains provisions that could ...

A single-payer system will degenerate into corporate welfare unless we take on health care monopolies. By Phillip Longman for Washington Monthly Many of us still remember the moment during the debate over the Affordable Care Act when a powerful Democratic senator not only blocked supporters of single-payer health care from testifying before his committee, but ...

By Katie Thomas, New York Times. Above photo: George Vander Linde checked for morphine from a dispenser at Norwegian American. CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times NOTE: I have heard the United States’ healthcare system described as third world. Some of our health outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy, particularly in poor black and ...

By Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. NOTE: It is clear to me that health insurers will never be satisfied with the amount of money they have. They ask for more money with promises of lowering premiums, and then find reasons to raise premiums when they get it. That is because private health insurers are financial ...

By Margaret Flowers, Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE). As it was in the 2008 election, health care is at the top of voter’s list of concerns. This means that we have the opportunity over the next few years to push National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) over the finish line. But there is no ...

By providing a single tier of coverage to all, with automatic enrollment, comprehensive benefits, and no cost-sharing, single-payer provides a distinct, egalitarian vision of universality. By Adam Gaffney for Dissent Magazine In the 1960s, a struggle took place over the fate of healthcare in Canada. On one side, there were the proponents of the single-payer ...

NOTE: It is a good sign that Nancy Pelosi’s rhetoric is changing. It shows that the political winds are blowing toward single payer. Pelosi is likely to face a challenge for the House Speaker position if the Democrats take the majority in the House this fall. Our tasks are to keep building momentum for National ...

Note: Congresswoman Jayapal introduced a bill that would allow states to have their federal Medicare dollars for a state health care plan. It also has provisions to provide waivers for other federal health insurances and laws. Her intention is to facilitate states that are seeking to create a health care plan that is closer to ...

By Jonathan Michels, Robertha Barnes, and Sydney Russell Leed for STAT News Fifty years ago this month, at the 1968 meeting of the American Medical Association, a fourth-year medical student named Peter Schnall seized the microphone and scolded several hundred of the most prestigious, highly educated white men in America. “Organized medicine has never felt ...